Worldview formation and Otto von Bismarck development as a politician

The main aim of the article is to consider impartially the formation of O. Bismarck’s worldview and the stages of his development as a political figure. A lot of biographers are often biased and sometimes reach panegyric or censure in their attitude to this person. The article examines objectively the factors that influenced the formation of O. Bismarck’s personality, limiting itself only to the main features of his personal character and family environment, without dwelling in detail on his political activities. Bismarck’s mother was excellently educated, combined the sentimental-religious mood of her century and the liberal beliefs inherited from her father, she aimed to awaken ambition and the desire to achieve her goals in her children from childhood. His father, unlike emotionless and refined mother, was a former military man who preferred rural life to urban life and he spoiled children in every possible way and was the soul of the family. She was shrewd and ambitious, personified intelligence and she loved to have conversations with intelligent people and to play chess, he was full of humor and fun and he preferred living on the estate and hunting. Perhaps due to this inconsistency, Bismarck was not brought up in class prejudices in his native home, but later his basic beliefs were formed under the influence of the environment.

The Positive Worldview of Teenage Schoolchildren as a Predictor of a Safe Educational Environment

The content of the article was determined by the problem of positive worldview formation of teenage schoolchildren as a predictor of a safe educational environment. The lack of qualitative characteristics of the educational environment and, in particular, its safety presupposes great difficulties in the personal development of schoolchildren during the period of maturation. Improving the level of psychological safety and psychological culture in the socio-cultural space is a preventative means of maintaining personal mental health. The early providing of purposeful psychological aid based on the principles of humanity and pragmatism determines the change in the mental reality of a person and limits the identification of psychopathological symptoms of development. The research was conducted on the basis of comprehensive schools of Kryvyi Rih city (Ukraine). To accomplish the task a comparative method of research organization (a cross section of data in different age groups of schoolchildren of the sample) was used. The methods employed in the research were designed to measure happiness in general, to estimate peculiarities of behavioral reactions in situations of uncertainty, to identify stress factors as positive worldview, confidence and constructive activity. For deeper analysis of the obtained data and revealing of dependence between indicators of worldview trends and the age of respondents a correlation analysis was carried out. The received data can be a basis for further research work in peculiarities of strategies of behavior of teenage schoolchildren.

Yakiv Holovatskyi’s Creative Contacts with Figures of Slavonic Countries in the Context of Intercultural Relations in the First Half of the XIXth Century

The article examines in detail the personal and creative contacts of Yakiv Holovatskyi with scholars and cultural-and-public figures of the West Slavonic and South Slavonic nations from the inception of the Ruthenian Triad circle in the 1830s to the early 1850s. The analysis of the problem’s historiography has shown that, despite the territorial fragmentation of Ukrainian lands (the increased control by the Austrian Empire and strict restrictions by the Russian Empire), the Ukrainians of the first half of the XIXth century managed to consolidate their forces and create strong interrelations for the implementation of common Slavonic ideas and the establishment of each nation as a separate independent state unit. The study focuses on the participation of Yakiv Holovatskyi in the socio-cultural processes of the first half of the XIXth century, which led to the development of Ukrainian society in Halychyna and its European integration. A particular attention is paid to aspects of scientific worldview formation of Yakiv Holovatskyi as a folklorist. There is also mentioned the influence of Polish field researchers and ethnographers on his interest in the folklore and ethnographic sphere, which became a priority part of all scientific activity of the Halychyna figure under study and marked the release of the four-volume edition Folk Songs of Halychyna Ruthenia and Hungarian Ruthenia. The article’s authoress reveals Yakiv Holovatskyi’s contacts with figures from the Czech, Slovak, Serbian, Croatian, and Slovenian countries. Thus, the results of Holovatskyi’s cooperation with the Slavonic world are presented and the importance of intercultural relations for the further scientific and artistic development of Ukraine as a nation is emphasized. On the basis of archival materials, the article supplements the list of works carried out by Yakiv Holovatskyi through collaboration with West Slavonic and South Slavonic nations, who treated the scholar as an equal and valued his knowledge in the field of Slavonic studies, history, ethnography, and folklore of the Ukrainian Ciscarpathians. It is proved that throughout his creative career, Yakiv Holovatskyi was a priority link in cultural and scientific relations among the Eastern, Southern and Western Slavs.

ECOLOGICAL WORLDVIEW FORMATION OF ENGINEERING STUDENTS IN THE CONTEXT OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE TRAINING

The educational space of a non-linguistic university makes it possible to conduct a purposeful process of forming the ecological worldview and culture of future specialists in the logic of their professional development. According to the authors, the eco-oriented content of teaching a foreign language can make a great contribution to the implementation of this mission due to the great general cultural and educational potential of this discipline. The paper offers a comprehensive theoretical substantiation of the problem under study, reveals the essence, structure and methodology of the ecological worldview formation of engineering students. The authors make an attempt to model the educational process on the basis of interactive pedagogical technologies, the use of which allows students of non-linguistic areas to solve communicative problems on the basis of environmental topics. The totality of data obtained as a result of the experimental work carried out by the authors confirms the effectiveness of students’ ecological worldview formation through the inclusion of environmental-oriented content in the system of language training at the university.

THE FEATURES OF PRE-SCHOOL AND PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN’S VALUE FORMATION PROCESS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THEIR WORLDVIEWS

Value orientations are reflected in a child’s worldview. Scientists have a common opinion that a person’s worldview begins to be formed in childhood. The key purpose of the study was to analyze the data received from a survey of senior pre-school and primary-school age children with the help of an interview "Factors of a child’s choice of socially significant values", describe the features of a value formation process and measure the levels of pre-school and primary-school children’s worldviews. The structural and dynamic qualitative characteristics of “value orientations” system were represented by the unity of its components: 1) cognitive; 2) emotional; 3) behavioral. The sample consisted of children from various regions of Ukraine. The following levels were distinguished in our research based on the manifested qualitative characteristics of worldviews: a formed picture of the world (the high level); expressed worldviews (the above average one); existing worldviews (the average level); limited worldviews (the below average one); fragmentary worldviews (the low level). The data showed that the majority of Ukrainian preschool and primary-school children had the high and above-average levels of worldview formation. We analyzed emotional, cognitive, and behavioral manifestations of children’s worldviews and generalized characteristics typical for children groups formed based on the levels of worldview formation.

Factors Influencing North Korean Worldview: Juche and Trauma

This article examines the worldview formation of North Koreans. While there is debate on what factors influence worldview formation in general, this article discusses two important factors that influence the worldview formation of North Koreans in particular, namely, Juche ideology and the traumatic suffering experienced by the populace. The article offers application points for ministry to and among North Koreans and concludes with suggestions for further research.

THE INTELLECTUAL SUPPORT OF RESTORING UKRAINE’S INDEPENDENCE: COLLABORATION BETWEEN UKRAINIANS IN UKRAINE AND ABROAD (DEDICATED TO THE 30th ANNIVERSARY OF UKRAINE’S INDEPENDENCE)

The author of the article analyzes the collaboration of the domestic and foreign Ukrainians alike in the perennial intellectual support of restoring Ukraine‟s independence. The most important figures in this process were: V. Antonovych, M. Hrushevsky, M. Kostomarov, A. Krymsky, M. Maksymovych, I. Ogienko, O. Potebnya; V. Vytvytsky, M. Globenko, V. Holubnychy, S. Hordynsky, E. Glovinsky, D. Dontsov, A. Zhukovsky, Z.E. Kohut, I. Koshelivets, B. Kravtsiv, I. Krypyakevych, V. Kubiyovych, Z. Kuzelya, Y. Kuchabsky, V. Markus, M. Mikhnovsky, O. Ogloblin, E. Onatsky, J. asternak, E.-Yu. Pelensky, V. Petrov, S. Plokhii, N. Polonska-Vasylenko, O. Pritsak, I. Rakovsky, S. Rudnytsky, S. Smal-Stotsky, M. Stakhiv, O. Subtelny, A. Figol, V. Khvoyka, M. Chubaty, V. Shcherbakivsky, S. Yaniv; V. Balushok, V. Baran, M. Braichevsky, I. Gel, P. Grigorenko, J. Dashkevych, I. Dziuba, I. Drach, M. Zhulynsky, L. Zaliznyak, J. Isayevych, J. Kalakura, I. Kandyba, P. Kononenko, L. Lukyanenko, O. Nelga, G. Pivtorak, M. Popovych, O. Romanov, M. Rudenko, E. Sverstyuk, S. Segeda, V. Sergiychuk, V. Smoliy, V. Stus, M. Tymoshyk, V. Chornovil and others. The publishing of „Encyclopedia of Ukraine‟ was an extremely important event that became the means to centralize the worldview of the meaning field of the Ukrainian identity. „Encyclopedia of Ukraine‟ (Professor Volodymyr Kubiyovych, chief editor) is a scientific publication that combines the most significant systemized information in different scientific branches about the Ukrainianship, Ukraine, and Ukrainian world. Since Ukraine's study has a huge worldview potential, it is necessary to further fortify its influence on the forming of a complete worldview and common identity of Ukrainian citizens. We know that any political, economic, historical, and ethnocultural information requires the meaning processing when it is being studied. Because meaning is a unit of inner world of identity (O. Leontiev), while „the strive for the meaning‟ is one of the most efficient motivators of person's tendencies, and once it‟s gone people get trapped in an existential vacuum, alienation, depression, despair, etc. (V. Frankl). The meaning throughout the entire „Encyclopedia of Ukraine‟ could become a determinant of the worldview formation of the meaning field in Ukrainian identity (both personal and general). So, „Encyclopedia of Ukraine‟ with meaningful information and different forms (signs, symbols, images, axiological, etc.) of meaning representation may become a source of Ukraine‟s study competency and a system forming factor of centralizing the worldview of the meaning field of the Ukrainian identity, which was provided by the process of intellectual support of Ukraine's independence.

Synergetic mechanisms of students’ new worldview formation

The authors consider the synergetic approach in psycho-pedagogics. Synergeticsis regarded nowadays as one of the fundamental aspects of the students’ new worldview formation. Teachers’ professional awareness to work in the framework of new tendencies is one more urgent task. Creative and prognostic thinking will help teachers to work with students as self-organizing systems. The proper new original technique and style elaboration will greately contribute to educational process. Such Synergetic mechanisms as openness, nonlinearity; feedback are the leading ones in creating modern terms of teaching and upbringing students, defining them as a super-complexes and unique systems. Synergetics can be of great assistance in creating modern terms of teaching and upbringing students. The synergetic approach is a scientific domain of evolving structurally organized systems, to which the system of professional training of specialists can be referred. This approach creates new possibilities to student’s self-determination in the framework of multidimensionality, complexity, and alternativeness of cognizable processes.It is of great importance to recognize the significant role of randomness in students’ self-development. It is necessary to emphasize that systems including several complex system components that make up an integral synergetic system are actually realized in the conditions of diversity, randomness, spontaneity and unpredictability. The problem is that a future specialist should have the skills and professional mobility to react quickly to the constantly emerging changes in practical and scientific activity. Thus, interdisciplinary integration is one of the most important areas for improving the preparation of students in a modern higher educational institution.

Worldview Grounds of Law: The Structure and Functions

Purpose. To show the structural organization of the worldview foundations of law, the meaning of the legal worldview. Methodology: general scientific methods of analysis and synthesis are used. Conclusions. The legal worldview is the integration of relevant components of legal consciousness that systematically reflect the understanding of the interaction of man and law, the place, significance, and rights in the life of an individual and society. Worldview ideas embodied in the fundamental values, principles of functioning of the legal system are ideally the main semantic reference point for the implementation of professional activities of a lawyer. The structure of the legal worldview includes: the value bases of law, the social purpose of law (the presence of law as a social phenomenon), the knowledge of law and legal phenomena (a condition for the development of human ideas about the world of law), the teleology of the worldview of legal activity. Functions of the legal worldview: formation of ideas and ideas about social ideals, values, attitudes; creation of value orientations of legal activity; formation of a legal picture of the world and a systematic assessment of legal reality. Scientific and practical significance. The results of the research allow us to fix the universal value of the worldview in the assessment of law as a social phenomenon, show the inextricable connection between the value bases of law and the goals of legal activity. In the practical aspect, the significance of the legal worldview in the activities of a lawyer is confirmed.